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I just found something out.  There's one additional feature you lose when
you move to free-form: syntax checking.  There's no syntax checker in SEU
for the free-form syntax.  I just checked - nothing in the jLpex editor
either.  Evidently, to go to free-form, we also sacrifice syntax checking.

This line will cause an error in fixed format RPG:

       callp        myProgram(var1:%ln(var1))

You'll get a normal invalid token error from spelling "%len" wrong, just
like you would expect.  But in free-form RPG, the the same line (with the
semicolon added because it is required in order to support parsing) causes
no error.  So, in free-form I can indent code as long as I add semicolons,
but I give up syntax checking.

Joe


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